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Free Throw Coaching Philosophy of Coach Boren
Many people think that making free throws is all
mental. That could not be farther from the truth. Most players miss free
throws because of poor fundamental mechanics. When Coach Boren gives a
private lesson, there are 41 separate fundamentals he is looking for. Of
the 41, there are about ten that are the most common faults of players,
and they are all covered in detail in both the book and the video.
To fix mechanics, the player needs to know what they
are doing, and the best way to tell that is through the use of video. We
all think we know what we look like when shooting a basketball, but we
don’t. The player needs to be filmed shooting free throws from several
different angles. The video needs to be analyzed by someone who knows
what to look for, then the player should meet privately with that coach
and go over all of the suggested improvements, one at a time. This is a
critical session, because unless the player totally believes in why the
suggested changes will help the ball go straighter, higher, the right
distance, etc, the player might not stay with the necessary practice long
enough to effect the needed changes to their shot.
Then the player needs to go on the court and begin
working on the suggested changes to his or her shot. Some of the items
can be fixed in just a few shots, and for others, it make take several
hundred shots. Some of the items can be fixed by yourself, and you need
help on others (the proper arc, for example). If you stay with it long
enough, however, anything can be fixed, no matter how long you’ve been
doing it the wrong way.
Usually, the player will be alone while practicing
free throws, so it is important to have several different games you can
play, to keep the practice interesting and fun. It is important to keep
an exact score for every practice session anyway, so there are a lot of
things you can do to keep you going. One is to see how many you make out
of each 100 shot. Another is to keep track of how many straight you can
make. A good game is to keep tract of the three longest streaks.
If you are having trouble with outside shots, be sure
you are fundamentally sound at the free throw line, then simply square up
and add a jump to your free throw. Coach Boren has long felt that the
free throw is the foundation for all shooting, and that the upper body
should be doing the same thing on an outside shot as on a free throw. One
of his lines to student is “If you came from Mars, discovered basketball,
and decided to learn how to play, you would learn the rules, see that you
got in shape, learn to pass, dribble, etc., and when you got around to
shooting, you wouldn’t learn the 25 foot jump shot first – you would learn
how to stand still, hold it any way you wanted, and perfect the free
throw. Then later you would learn how to turn that into an effective
outside shot.” |
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